Badass programmers

I strongly recommend everyone (especially non-techies) read the discussion “Who are/were some of the most badass computer programmers?” at Quora.  It’s too easy for non-programmers – even for programmers – to forget that all software, at its foundation, is written by human beings.  Everything is somebody’s baby.  Just turns out that some mommies and daddies are WAY more badass than others.  My list… (more: http://eclecticquill.com/badass-programmers/)

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